Tag Archives: Digital twin

Symbiotic shared education The shift from owning knowledge to owing the capability to access knowledge and engage the knowledge  owner to leverage on that for the task at hand is taking us into the era of symbiotic shared education. Assuming that it will be possible to engage the required knowledge, …

Basic education and just in time education The need to acquire a basic education, i.e. the capability to learn –including learning to communicate verbally and of reading  /written communications may fade away, possibly not in this timeframe but in the long run/, the capability to understand logical structures and math, …

As part of its Future Mobility Grand Challenge – watch the clip- the UK Government is funding the creation of a sophisticated ambient simulator, OmniCAV,  recreating 32 km of Oxfordshire roads, including rural and village roads. OmiCAV will be used as a testing environment for CAV -Connected Autonomous Vehicles- and it …

Key people are in high demand, that is the case for Daniel Kalt, the Chief Economist at UBS that has a long queue of investors demanding to talk to him. Hence UBS had Daniel scheduled for a full day shooting, involving 120 cameras that took his expressions as he talked …

Life without disease In the last century health care made incredible progresses. Purified water and better food take the lion share in this progress, although they are often underestimated. Drugs, surgery (enabled by anesthesia), antibiotics and more recently anti-immune therapy have fought diseases that were killing millions of people. On …

The SD Association has issued a press release to inform of the approval of a new standard that can support a new generation of SD (Secure Digital) Cards that can store up to 128 TB. It is the specification 7.0 on SD cards and it is backward compatible, meaning that …

Following on the previous posts in this series, a third area of awareness, covered in a specular way in the next subsection, relates to the potential perception of context and actions carried out by the “aware” entity by other entities. This is, by far, a higher level of awareness and …

Data upload to the brain (and from the brain) The Imperial College Foresight study includes Data upload to the brain as a disruptive technology that might happen in the 2040 timeframe. This is part of a more general evolution seeing the mirroring of a person, and a person brain, in …

Just three days ago I shared some thoughts on how our “smartness” depends on our social environment, on the support we are receiving from a multitude of other humans, most of which we don’t even know of their existence. All this support is freeing us from the need to know …

Wearables have been around for several years. They are just becoming more seamless and performant in terms of picking up, with increased precision, a number of parameters from which applications can derive meaning, like counting the number of steps we walk in a day, deriving the calories consumed and getting …